BRIBERY AND EXTORTION

Bribery and Extortion

Bribery and Extortion

Definition 1:

Bribery occurs when a supervisor accepts a payment in return for reporting false information for the benefit of the agent.Definition 2:

Extortion occurs when the supervisor gets a payment from the agent of the threat of misreport evidence that was favorable to the agent. We say development has taken place if the extortion attempt fails and the information that was favorable misreports supervisor for the agent.

Bribery and extortion are accompanied by side agreements between the supervisor and the agent, while the development is not. With bribery, the supervisor and the agent forged information to ...